In Russia, it has been stated that giving up NATO should be a condition for ending the war. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Hrushko demands that the promise of the NATO Bucharest Summit on the future membership of Ukraine in the Alliance is a key condition for the end of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

The Russian official called the “catastrophic for European security” the decision of the NATO Bucharest Summit, which was enshrined at the highest level of the Alliance’s intention to adopt Ukraine and Georgia.

“This wording will not be discovered, which is absolutely unacceptable for us when we talk about the need to achieve a viable, stable, reinforced concrete resolution of the conflict in Ukraine,” Hrushko said.

The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine George Tykiy in response to the demand of the Russian Federation to abolish the promise of NATO in Bucharest that Russia “did not give the word on this issue.”

“Oh, just, the North Korean ally exhibits NATO ultimatums. Full bullshit. Moscow words were not given on this issue. Russia wages the invading war in Europe. Its occupation troops are in Ukraine and other European countries. European security architecture is built on defense against Russia, ”he said.

In April 2008, a summit in NATO Bucharest promised that Ukraine and Georgia would be in the Alliance one day and that the NATO membership is.

Following NATO summit in Vilnius in July 2023, the Secretary General of the Jens Stoltenberg stated that Ukraine would receive an invitation to join the Alliance when all the allies will agree and the conditions will be fulfilled. ” NATO members confirmed the intention to accept Ukraine in NATO, declared at the 2008 summit in Bucharest. However, the timeframe of this step has not yet been defined.

At a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada on October 16, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky presented the points of Ukraine proposed by him in the war with Russia. It consists of five public points and several classified applications. According to the President, the first point is the invitation of Ukraine to NATO.

Russian Foreign Minister Serhiy Lavrov stated that peace in Ukraine is possible only in case of refusal of NATO membership and the loss of part of the territories by Ukraine.